Franz Harringer

Franz Harringer (born March 1, 1894 in Waldburg , † April 4, 1968 in Linz ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and employee of the Federal Railroad. From 1945 to 1961 he was a member of the Upper Austrian Landtag and from 1952 to 1961 its second president.

education and profession

Harringer completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith after compulsory school. After years of traveling, he joined the Steyr works in 1912, and in 1919 he became an employee of the Austrian Federal Railways . He was a trade union official in 1933, but lost his job in 1934 after the union was banned. However, he continued to work illegally for the union. After a total of ten arrests and 12 house searches, a trial against him was opened before the People's Court in Vienna in 1943. There he was sentenced to eight months in prison, with only his good professional training protecting him from being sent to a concentration camp.

Politics and functions

Harringer began his political career as a trade union official, where he was initially deputy chairman of the metal workers' association in the Steyrer works. At the railway he was active as a union shop steward in the main Bundesbahn workshop, from 1933 he worked as the state secretary of the union and the legal protection association. After the end of the Second World War he helped to rebuild democracy in Upper Austria and took part in the establishment of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Upper Austria , for which he was a member of the Chamber Council between 1946 and 1959. In 1954 he was elected Vice President of the Chamber of Labor. In the first legislative period after the Second World War he was a member of the Upper Austrian Landtag as a representative of the Social Democrats, and he was sworn in on October 13, 1945. On October 1, 1952, he was elected second president of the state parliament, a function that he held until November 15, 1961. On the same day, he also resigned as a member of the state parliament.

literature

• Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1945 (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria. 12). Oöla, Linz 1989, ISBN 3-90031-347-4 , pp. 95 f.

Web links

• Biography of Franz Harringer on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .